mosquete

Galician

Etymology

Attested in 1458. From Italian moschetto (“musket”), from moschetta (“Crossbow bolt”), probably through Middle French mouschete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkete̝/

Noun

mosquete m (plural mosquetes)

1. musket
   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 341:

     que lles tomaran ao dito Loys Caldellas duas dobras et triinta mrs e a espada et o mosquete et a capa et huun çinto et un esqueiro

     they robbed Lois Caldelas two doubloons, thirty mor. and the sword and the musket [crossbow?!] and the cloack and a sheath and a tinderbox

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mosquete”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mosquete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mosquete”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian moschetto (“musket”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), through French mousquet.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mosˈke.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mosˈke.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /moʃˈke.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mosˈke.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muʃˈke.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -et͡ʃi, (Portugal) -etɨ
• Hyphenation: mos‧que‧te

Noun

mosquete m (plural mosquetes)

1. musket (ancient firearm, portable, with a wide barrel and flintlock ignition, initially supported on a fork for firing and widely used in the 16th century)
2. (colloquial) slap
3. (Brazil) small stature horse

Related terms

• mosquetão, mosquetaria, mosquetear, mosqueteiro

Spanish

Noun

mosquete m (plural mosquetes)

1. musket

Derived terms

• mosquetón

 

Further reading

• “mosquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10